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3.4 miles of thread

Well it finally happened. Last night I was sewing up a couple more tarp skins for my sons' hammocks in preparation for an upcoming outing when I exhausted my 6,000 yard cone of thread from Speers. As advertised :

Well it finally happened. Last night I was sewing up a couple more tarp skins for my sons' hammocks in preparation for an upcoming outing when I exhausted my 6,000 yard cone of thread from Speers. As advertised :

Guess I better be careful when crossing the street from now on, my number is evidently up.

That's a lot of stitching....maybe it's my wife that does me in for lack of attention

Grizz

Ummm... grizz... you are off if my calculations (sans slide rule) are correct. Assuming that you wound your bobbin from the same cone you would have 1.7 miles of stitching as the bobbin and cone are used at the same rate for each seam. Still a good bit of stitching.

I may be slow... But I sure am gimpy.

"Bless you child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way."
Mrs. Loftus to Huck Finn

Ummm... grizz... you are off if my calculations (sans slide rule) are correct. Assuming that you wound your bobbin from the same cone you would have 1.7 miles of stitching as the bobbin and cone are used at the same rate for each seam. Still a good bit of stitching.

Depends on how you look at it. 1.7 miles of stitched material yes, but stitching itself? If you make a Möbius strip from one foot of paper, and trace the length inscribed by a pencil run all the way around, how long is that pencil trace?

I should have known better. I'm not sure the analogy applies. But I am math impaired.

I may be slow... But I sure am gimpy.

"Bless you child, when you set out to thread a needle don't hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it; that's the way a woman most always does, but a man always does t'other way."
Mrs. Loftus to Huck Finn

Well it finally happened. Last night I was sewing up a couple more tarp skins for my sons' hammocks in preparation for an upcoming outing when I exhausted my 6,000 yard cone of thread from Speers. As advertised :